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verb

past tense of abandon
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as in indulged
to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedly more than ready to abandon himself to a life of complete idleness for the duration of his vacation

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Recent Examples of abandoned
Adjective
But the findings won’t be able to say how abandoned land should be managed, or whether people should try to manage it at all. Bydan Charles, science.org, 2 Jan. 2025 According to the nonprofit, Kristin Davis found the abandoned and weak elephant calf while on a trip near Kenya's Chyulu Hills. Kelli Bender, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats abandoned it. Connor Greene, Time, 12 Sep. 2025 Archeologists estimate that it was first used around 7,500 BCE, and was abandoned sometime around 2,500 BCE. Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abandoned
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abandoned
Adjective
  • Days are spent fishing, snorkeling, and picnicking on deserted Indian Ocean islands, while nights are spent sleeping under the stars.
    Ian Proctor, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Co-starring Rachel McAdams, the tonal mashup chronicles two incompatible work colleagues who crash land on a deserted island and have to find a way to work together for the sake of survival.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This rampant, unauthorized AI use degrades the educational experience of individual students who overly rely on the technology and those who wish to avoid using it.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Speculation remains rampant that those three ACC schools will leave that league before the end of this decade for the SEC or Big Ten.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At one point Wednesday, the judge indulged their request to meet with Adelson and the attorneys at a side bar out of the public’s earshot.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There’s humor in the script’s observation of the absurd degree to which celebrities are indulged, like the slice of cheesecake that keeps turning up because Jay once requested it and thereafter it was written into his rider.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This edition’s commissions have taken over some of the town’s most striking and unusual locations, including a church built for the fishing community, a former customs house, a Martello Tower and a disused railway bridge.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • On his release, Stern went on to spend the 1950s ping-ponging between New York and California, for a time living on a disused laundry barge in Sausalito.
    News Desk, Artforum, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Anticipation is high for season 2 of High Potential, which emerged last year as a runaway hit for ABC.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Though Broadcom hasn’t experienced Nvidia’s runaway sales growth, it is seen as a key AI beneficiary.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mainland China opened higher but surrendered gains as technology hardware, semiconductors, electrical equipment, and telecom stocks lagged.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • McCullough to bring in reliever Seth Martinez, who surrendered an RBI single to Riley Adams.
    Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Red Sox got a run back on Masataka Yoshida’s RBI single in the third, but the club later stranded men at the corners in both the fourth and sixth, squandering what turned out to be the club’s last scoring opportunities.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The two met when Bethany was a teenager on a school trip who got stranded in Warsaw for a month when ash from an Icelandic eruption grounded planes across Europe.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Though Davies planned to reunite the band for a tour in 2015, it was canceled when the musician was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that attacks plasma cells.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, Romania controversially canceled the turnout of a presidential election that produced a victory for a far-right independent, arguing his campaign was backed by Russian interference and disqualifying his candidacy.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Abandoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abandoned. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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